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Gossip Girl
EMAILPRINTSERIES: CW, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 26 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 77 votes
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Show Info
Genre(s): Drama, Soap Opera
Created By:
Josh Schwartz
Stephanie Savage
Cecily von Ziegesar (Book)
First Air Date: September 19, 2007
Summary
Starring Blake Lively, Chace Crawford, Connor Paolo, Ed Westwick, Kristen Bell, Kelly Rutherford, Leighton Meester, and Matthew Settle
The O.C. moves to New York City's Upper West Side with a dash of gossip in the guise of Kristen Bell.
Episode Guide & More Info: More about this show at TV.com
Also On The Web: Official Show Site Television Without Pity Recaps
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
New York Daily NewsCristina Kinon
While it remains to be seen if Gossip Girl will take the plot plunge "The O.C." did after its first season, the beginning here is encouraging.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara
Gossip Girl is eye candy, and mind candy, as pretty as a perfectly prepared martini--one that some nasty, picture-perfect have-it-all may or may not have drugged.
Read Full Review >Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Welcome to the tawdry, tantalizing and altogether terrific world of Gossip Girl.
Read Full Review >TimeJames Poniewozik
Packing a sharp designer shiv, this clever saga of haves vs. have-mores proves the East Coast can be as enjoyably sudsy as the West.
Read Full Review >Washington PostJohn Maynard
At times, it's overboard and maybe a bit giggle-inducing, like watching little kids play dress-up. But overboard is exactly where Gossip Girl wants to be--and what viewers must embrace when taking the guilty plunge.
Read Full Review >USA TodayRobert Bianco
Some of the lines are witty, and while parents won't approve of all that goes on, the kids talk about much more than they actually do.
Read Full Review >Entertainment WeeklyKen Tucker
The cast is as good as its target demo, but I admire its fleet pace and sly craft. [21 Sep 2007, p.72]
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Gossip Girl offers a fun, juicy mix of popular music and melodrama.
Read Full Review >Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Your feelings about Gossip Girl will depend on just how guilty you are willing to feel about your guilty pleasures. It can be entertaining to watch adults throw around money, attitude, and alcohol on soap operas; it can be grotesque to see teenagers doing the same things.
Read Full Review >Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
It's very well-done teen angst, but at the same time made me feel very old and slightly pervy while watching it.
Read Full Review >NewsdayVerne Gay
Gossip Girl actually isn't bad by the standards of the medium--with "The Hills" pretty much being the standard--and it's even surprisingly competent.
Read Full Review >The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
It's a sleek, glossy, musically enhanced soap opera centered on wealthy, gorgeous high school students who connive and cavort to the sound of Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Peter Bjorn and John, Angels & Airwaves, and Timbaland.
Read Full Review >SlateTroy Patterson
The prep-school soap opera Gossip Girl is not as good--that is, not as bad, not quite so fabulously trashy--as the best-selling series of young-adult novels on which it's based.
Read Full Review >SalonHeather Havrilesky
Gossip Girl should be a good ride, at least until all the characters become more and more likable and there's no conflict or tension anymore, and then you have to kill off the weakest one just to get people to pay any attention.
Read Full Review >San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
The main action is pretty much standard soap fare.
Read Full Review >PopMattersMarisa LaScala
If you strip away the designer shoes and drinks, the show is left with all the hallmarks of a typical teen melodrama.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Gossip Girl lacks the heart, humor and sweetness that balanced out the soapy happenings on "The O.C."
Read Full Review >New York MagazineJohn Leonard
I don’t care whether Serena (Blake Lively) and Blair (Leighton Meester) can ever be best friends again after what happened with Blair’s boyfriend before Serena ran off to boarding school is not just because I’m an old fart.
Read Full Review >Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
But it's not just that the Gossip Girl cast lacks chemistry. Among these characters and threaded through these predictable, thin stories, there's precious little of anything that approaches sweetness, kindness, altruism or heart.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
It's one of the worst new series--but for its cardboard acting and writing, not for the morals.
Read Full Review >New York PostLinda Stasi
It's a nasty piece of work filled with underage sex, vulgar, hateful kids and references to young girls that are flat-out ugly and disrespectful.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Gossip Girl is a bad mix of the popular book series by Cecily von Ziegesar and the production talents of Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who made "The O.C."
Read Full Review >Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond
It's so consumed with its of-the-moment zeitgeist embodiment that it forgets to give its characters any depth beyond their reshaped noses.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this show is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 77 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Julia M gave it a10:
This one of best tv-show - which I saw! This best!!! Anxiously wait continuations.
Stuart S. gave it a0:
This truly is the worst show ever made!!! 90210 was bad, really bad but compared to Gossip girls it is a masterpiece like no other! The acting, the script, the so called plot, are all complete and total crap and as for that stupid talkover.....seriously!! Whoever commisioned this pile of trash needs to be sacked, slapped and then shot!
jojo mojo gave it a10:
This is seriously the best show ever. All the characters are actually really complex. Its is so addictive.
M Rq gave it a0:
Are you kidding me? Where do I begin? I didn't know there were bars in the U.S.A. where teens just hang out at any time any day... what about all the hilarious lines spewed out by the rich teenager, who apparently can do what he wants when he wants....Do they show the parents at all on this garbage show???
Bob gave it a0:
A terrible show that takes a bunch of preppy rich kids and trys to make it seem hard. The girls think that people actually care about their stupid relationships. And the whole point of the show is idiotic. Probably one of the worst shows ever created! It really lives up to the book though.
julia r gave it an8:
I consider this show to be an 8, only because they wreck too many Chuck and Blair scenes. They could've been together so many times by now
stephanie s. gave it a10:
This is the best show in the world!!!! I dont know what i would do with out.
